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"Serious play represents a feature of any otaku's activity. Basically you play, but you do it with the greatest dedication, seriousness and interest. We don't want to be the prisoners of the industries that bet on our ability as playful mammals, but we desire to know them and explore their limits. Otaku PLAY explores the universe of players and play of all kinds. How and when you play. What you learn while playing and where do you risk arriving when you remain blocked within the same play."
(issue introduction by ST)

OTAKU PLAY cover by Veronica Solomon



OTAKU PLAY - Table of contents illustration by Veronica Solomon

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A Play Of Dolls by InkaMon in OTAKU PLAY

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Exhibition: Pisica Patrata, Whaleless, Totoro Forest Project; Pictoplasma the beginning, by Veronica Solomon; A Play Of Dolls by InkaMon; Art Installations: Suzana Dan (Romania), Iwona Liegmann (Poland), Hush Monkey Studios (USA); Bento lunches: special interview, by Cristian Botea; Gadgets, by Reactive; J-Rock Dir en grey’s Uroboros, by Irina Georgescu (Rhea); Virtual Worlds Unplugged, by Mădălin Găgeanu; A Short Visual History of Videogame, NES Coffee table, by Kyle Downes; Illustrations: Jessica Fortner (Canada), Michal Sycz (Poland), Mykola (Ukraine), Natalie Ratkovski (Germany); Recommendations: Anime, Movies (JP/USA), Games; Cosplay: Youko Nakajima (Twelve Kingdoms), Kuchiki Byakuya (Bleach), Mikan Noyamano (Air Gear), Mugen (Samurai Champloo); A World Out of Order - the Postmodern Pattern in Samurai Champloo Anime Series, by Ruxandra Târcă; Adrian Florea - Lego Ambassador special interview, by Otaku; EbOY special interview, by Bogdan Gorgăneanu; Nullsleep special interview by Otaku; 2 Player Productions; Manga, Comics: Jump! • art by Between • story by Between & Inkamon; Serial Experiments Hamster • art & story by Inkamon; Dialogues#2 • art & story by Ciubi; Cain & Abel Chapter 4 • art by Asra • story by Ruxi; Uşuraticii • art & story by Nae

Interactive DVD
(comes with OTAKU MAGAZINE)

Audio
8-bit artists from around the world
Dubmood (FR), Graffiti Monsters (USA), Ikuma (SG), Jellica (UK), Kaseo (JP), Kplecraft (JP), Makunouchi Bento (RO), minus (RO), Moloh (RO), Nordloef (SE), Nullsleep (USA), Peter Swimm (USA), Pixelh8 (UK), Random (SE), she (SE), Sidabitball (FR), USK (JP).

Video
Live performances from Blip Festival NYC
8GB (AR), 6955 (JP), Alex Mauer (USA), Bit Shifter (USA), Blasterhead (JP), B.S.K. (JP), Bubblyfish (USA), Coova (JP), Covox (SE), Glomag (USA), Kaseo (JP), Markus Schrodt (AT), minus (RO), minusbaby (USA), Neil Voss (USA), Nullsleep (USA), Postal_M@rket (IT), Saitone (JP), Saskrotch (USA), The Depreciation Guild (USA), YMCK (JP)

Indie Games
Trailers and information about the greatest independent games
Blueberry Garden, Cletus Clay, Cortex Command, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dyson, Feist, Machinarium, Mightier, Osmos, Retro/Grade, Snapshot, Walkie Tonky, World Of Goo.

Extra
Baneling MOC, Boxing Tonight, Galaxy Tonight, Kyle Downes, Ie Ilie, Reformat the planet, Sting Operation, Video Games Live.

New York Poster from EbOY
(comes with OTAKU MAGAZINE)

Size: A2 (608×430 mm)

SPECIAL THANKS:

EbOY | 2 Player Productions | 8bitpeoples | Creative Partners | Visual Art


FOR MORE INFO & SUPPORT PLEASE VISIT:

otakumag.com

Cover by Aya Kato (www.ayakato.net)

Kaidan Sounds :

Kaidan Music: ghOst (UK), Ghost (USA), Ghost of a Flea (CA), Ghost Band (USA), Ghostfog (DE) Jigoku Nohara (BE), Kaidan Eiga (IT), ManiFest (DE), Smm (RO), Likantropika (AD), Makunouchi Bento (RO).

Cover created by: Matei Apostolescu aka beaucupezero

Table of Contents created by: Mihai Marcu aka mistik

CREATURES ATTACK!

CODE RED – creatures are attacking from allover!

The attack isn’t coming from the outer space. The revue Otaku Magazine provides protection and free crossing for all the creatures INVADING Ro, Japan, Germany, Argentina, France, U.S.A., Australia, Spain, The Netherlands, UK etc. Regardless the continent or origin country, all creatures are permitted to pass freely. No matter if they have several eyes or only one; tentacles, legs, cilia or hairy hands with claws, we should already know them by name. They are looked for by the collectors, designers, otakus and by other groupies who lurk them in the street, in stores, on the shelves and in catalogues and magazines specialized in the reproduction, taming and raising of characters.

Furthermore, right now we are the only ones to ensure within a magazine’s pages an existence unpolluted by advertising and spam, cancer-like for any kind of creature, human or not.

Invited artists of CREATURES Issue:

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS:
Friendswithyou (USA), Jeremyville (AUS), Daniel & Geo Fuchs (GER), Doma Collective (AR), C215 crew (FR), Other (CAN), William Cooney (JP), David Horvath (USA), Touma (JP), Joe Ledbetter (USA), rthq.com (UK), Shin Tanaka (JP), Remember the Little Guy (UK), Charuca (ESP), Tesha from The Cute Institute (CAN), SupaKitch (FR) , Chisami Tsuchiya (JP), Detrus (USA), Skaffa (NL).

NATIONAL ARTISTS:
Matei APOSTOLESCU(beaucupezero), Veronica SOLOMON (Inkamon), Remus BREZEANU(Between), Timotei Nicolae DROB (Nae), Mihai MARCU (Mistik), Xenia STAN (Xiusha), Alexandra Gabriela UJEUCA (Uje), Saddo, Heliana, Boti, Pikaciuka, videorgy.tv , Sidekicks, Gyorfi ZORAN, Radu POPESCU, Vladimir TAROI, Szolt , Cristi MAGUREANU.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO

Cover and table of content created by: Veronica Solomon aka inkamon

CONTENT: New stuff (by Odeena) // Otaku Generation part two(by Volker Grassmuck ) // The Eroticization of Technology (by Veronica Solomon // Introduction to Cyberpunk (by Adrian Oproiu) // Recommendations (Anime, movies, manga, books, games, music) // The Paranoia first part (Cyberpunk story by Kenji Siratori) // Ilustations, (Inkamon and Tudor Avramut – RO, Ippei Gyoubu – JP, Matei Apostolescu – RO, Rose Frith – SUA, Japi Honoo – IT, La Petite Grenouille – RO) // Paper Toys (Readymech - SUA) // Robot Carnival (anime review by Between) // STAS (Megatron) // Interview (Interview width Yoshiki Sakurai) // Comic Strip Experimental (Dan Pintea, MiMi, Nae ) // Manga made in ro (Between, Asra, Kaeru) // Interview Shido (Interview with Prof. Mrs. Beatrice Budea) // Tops...

Cover and table of content created by: Veronica Solomon aka inkamon

The first issue features ARTICLES (Genshiken-esque, Atrocitati manga, Otaku Generation), REVIEWS (Crashomon), MOVIE (the most expected Asian movies in 2006), FASHION (Shubakiller, Costin George Benescu, Maria Guta, Rozalb de Mura, Karakiri, Vlad Gabriela-Maria, Anca Benera), DESIGN (Alexe Popescu), TOYS (Costin George Benescu, Reniform, Ciubi), INTERVIEWS (Tujico Noriko), ILLUSTRATIONS (Asra, Mistik, Reniform, Tehas, Hisshi, Uje), VIDEO GAMES (The New Super Mario Bros), MANGA MADE IN RO (Kaeru, Between, Asra ), OTAKU CULTURE INFLUENCE (Inkamon, Xiusha), MANGA-KA PROFILE (Tsutomu Nihei).